crystal-lee

I know you dont know me but thank you 🥲 sounds a bit silly to thank someone for just living their life but its so real

have a nice day ❤️

Now I know this is 100 years old cause I am now over 40? I’m sorry for aging out of tumblr and not understanding how it works anymore with messages! But thank you for this sweet note.

Darling, we were all obsessed with our teachers. How thrilling it was to think we were interesting and beautiful, and enchanting and worldly enough to turn their heads? And how really now as we look back, are glad they weren’t the sort of people to take advantage of us.

But crushes on teachers was a right of passage.

Anyways doll, if you’re still around — big love from your internet aunties.

I'm 27 now and in a much better place. I absolutely love being queer, I connected with people online (and met up with them!) over our love for middle aged women, and I've recently told one of my best friends irl that I'm into older women, something I always thought I'd only admit to in the anonymity of the internet.

Recently I met a 53yo woman during a work function, we vibed and kept in touch afterwards, and I have no idea what in the ever living fuck possessed me but I asked her out on a date, she said yes, and now we're going to see The Devil Wears Prada 2 together on Saturday. I genuinely don't know how this is my life right now and if anyone had predicted this a couple years ago, I would've thought they had gone absolutely mad.

I'm telling you all this because this situation and the sheer joy I'm feeling right now has made me think back of all of the lovely posts you shared about your wife and your love for each other. You were hopecoremaxxing avant la lettre for younger milf-loving lesbians like me, and so I just want to say: thank you for living your truth, and for living it visibly and loudly and unapologetically. It means more than you might imagine. ❤️

I gotta be real, I really don’t understand all the new tumblr updates and this was buried in my notifications so I had no idea it was there! I don’t know if this was recent or near the release of DWP 2 but I’m here now and I’m sorry if this was so late.

First of all, all of that reads like the very best fic, and I’m so absolutely here for it. I am BEAMING with pride for you! You *did* that!

My wife and I are going on… (we always forget) 13 years I think? That is insane to think about. When we got together she was just 60 I believe and she is now nearing 75. I have lived in America for almost as long, which is another whole thing that’s hard to wrap my mind around.

Somehow in that time I became 42 (which I think I am? Or almost am. I am ashamed I really genuinely forget how old I am). Anyways I’m older.

To think, young baby gays could look to me at my age as the coveted older woman??? Insane. Crazy. I’m just a baby.

Age is so ridiculous in so many ways. For one, I’m the mature one in my relationship with my wife. She would tell you the same. She’s also still the hot one — here’s a shameless somewhat update photo…

Age means nothing at all, but yet I’m attracted to fine lines, to a woman who knows herself — a certain gravitas that comes with living. I know so many of us feel this way, and I’m so glad to know you’re part of the ‘obsessed with mature women’ club too. Life is too short to limit ourselves to our own age groups, our own bland sameness. There’s so much fun to be had, blending generations together.

It has been a crazy, thrilling, wonderful 13 years. I don’t regret a single moment of it.

Excuse me while I get a little bit teary over here! What a kind thing to do for an old gal over here back in her DWP community feels. 😭

This is genuinely the nicest compliment you could have given me. Videos have always been my favorite thing to contribute to a fandom. I began editing professionally about 15 years ago and realized that I don’t like editing professionally because it isn’t my choice of what I can create. It’s a totally different vibe making something you have to do, versus something you desperately feel you must make or you will perish.

If producers aren’t going to make our gals gay, then I simply must. My hands are absolutely tied on that one.

Anyways, again, this is genuinely the nicest thing — you absolutely could have scrolled on but instead you sent this delightful message and changed the trajectory of my whole day.

Just so you know, with you being such a big part of my DWP experience back in the day, I’d love to hear what you thought of The Devil Wears Prada 2, especially with its very mixed reviews from fans.

I hope you’re well and I look forward to possibly hearing by what you think ☺️

You have no idea what it did for me to have you say I was part of your DWP experience. Generally so touched! I loved being part of that fandom - particularly in the Livejournal days. We were all truly living then weren’t we? Take me back pre-Lezziemanville to the Kitnkabootle days!

For the most part, I loved the movie.

I found the character jumps a little jarring at first. I didn’t want Miranda to talk so much. Or to be at her summer home all giddy. I know it probably sounds weird because while I saw what they were doing — showing us the characters on the other side of lived experiences — I wanted to see the same ones from before: Terrifying Miranda, floundering Andy.

The movie needed about 90% less boyfriend dialogue and I didn’t like Emily’s arc…

But overall I did love to see my girls again! The end felt like they landed the plane. Miranda and Andy were never going to be canonically a safe team. The power dynamics weren’t ever even. But I like it that way. I never wanted them to get married, and take the kids to the beach for the weekend. I wanted that weird, off-footed predator/prey thing they’ve always had going. Don’t get too comfortable, someone’s going to get hurt. They gave us that continued dynamic canonically.

What’s probably the most weird thing to admit, is that I hadn’t been craving the sequel at all.

Over the years, I’ve read DWP 2 in so many iterations: @chilly-flame , @ubiquitousmixie , @telanu, the authors of one shots, of AUs, of works four times longer than the original film script. The gift all these people shared with each other gave us the continuing story.

DWP2 just feels like icing on the cake.